The world of optical illusions
ILUSIA is a fascinating world of optical illusions which will shake your confidence in your own senses. Let yourself be photographed on the moon and on the famous platform 9¾, for a moment you will be a ballerina or Titan Atlas, you will get lost in infinity or in the matrix… New optical illusions await you, compare yourself to the tallest living man in the world, visit the Louve Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London in our gallery. You can be a face among the world-famous portraits of painters, and our very popular attraction Small/Big is also back. This and much more is offered by ILUSIA. The art of optical illusions and 3D painttings will simply take your breath away. In the ILUSIA Gallery you will not believe your own eyes. Nothing is as it seems!
You can learn more about Liptovský Mikuláš on the Liptovský Mikuláš website.
Come to the most modern museum of its kind in Slovakia and experience the world of nature from the underground to the high mountains. During the interactive tour, you can look into the bear’s lair, listen to the sounds of nature and animals, or try crawling in the cave. You will end your tour in the museum´s lookout tower from which you can see the landmarks of the town of Liptovský Mikuláš.
The museum is divided into 2 exhibits located on four floors, from the basement to the attic. The exhibition Karst and Caves of Slovakia, located in the basement, represents the phenomenon of karst in all contexts. The first floor to attic are dedicated to the Protected Nature of Slovakia exhibition, which introduces the geo- and biodiversity of life, its protection, and is also dedicated to the issue of sustainability.
TrickLandia – trick-art and optic illusions gallery – is a place where you will experience a unique journey through Slovakia in the gallery of trick-art and optical illusions. In its premises you will find themes of Slovak folk tales, fairy tales, as well as knowledges about municipalities and castles in Slovakia. They contain trick-art paintings, augmented reality, antigravity rooms, the most beautiful mirror maze in Central Europe.
- Tricklandia covers an area of 500 m2
- Construction involved the use of more than 200 m2 mirrors
- Our art work used more than 2,000 cans of spray paint
- We worked on Tricklandia for exactly a year putting in 9,600 hours of work
- Production of the exhibits required 6 m3 of wood and 9,600 screws
- 15 trick-art pictures, a 6 m-tall book and 7 other exhibits await your visit
Enjoy the real farm experience!
In our bio-farm you can take a peek at food preparation for our cows and sheep, watch cows or sheep being milked, meet our “adult” cows or visit a children garden to caress little calves, which have just been born!
You will learn, how many stomachs a cow has, who is the strongest person on the farm, why there is a hairdresser and pedicure for our cows in the farm, and why they live in a hotel. Through the experience, you can get to know the process of breeding cows and sheep in our farm, you can learn more about the production and processing milk, taste the freshest cheese before it goes to shops and meet farm animals!
All this is waiting for you when you visit the highest located farm in the Liptov region, where our cows are looking up the legendary Mt Kriváň! Are you ready to a visit you and your children will never forget?
Would you like to know the miraculous power of medicinal herbs? Visit the herb plantation in the village named Východná, where they will show you how the herbs are grown, harvested and subsequently processed to produce quality teas without unnecessary chemicals. In addition, while tasting delicious teas, you will also learn what story is hidden behind the creation of the plantation itself.
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Tours of Východná Farm last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes
Outside the summer season (September-June), it is necessary to order a tour at least 1 day in advance, or inquire about the possibility of a tour on the same day.
Regular admissions during the summer season (July, August) are at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00, 16:00.
The tour must be ordered online, or by phone or email.
Covering an area of 600 m2, our gallery boasts modern technology. Once again, we’ve introduced new features – an interactive wall and floor, a beetle-like Beetle, a tour of the peaks… Schedule of complementary exhibitions upstairs: May–June 2024: augmented reality has enabled us to animate Ľubomír Korenko’s paintings. July–September 2024: Astro Exhibition, October–December 2024: “Seven Tatra Cards”, combining a presentation of historical figures and Tatra motifs. For more details about the current exhibition, please visit the website.
Let´s play wisely
The Dobrá Hračka Gallery in Tatranská lomnica is a place where you will find a lot of games and attractions on an area of 500 m2, you will learn traffic regulations, and try different toys. Their shop is also focused on non-traditional toys, thanks to which children and adults can have fun and even train their brain. Toys they sell in Dobrá Hračka Gallery, can be best demonstrated to you on the basis of personal experience. Therefore, that´s why they also test them and play with them.
Park of miniatures of selected Slovak cultural monuments on a scale of 1:25. Castles, chateaux, churches, bell towers, but also a G-scale garden railway with eight tracks and several trains. Here you will find, for example, a miniature of the Bojnice Castle, Vlkolínec or the Walachia Skanzen. All this under the open sky in a pleasant, well-maintained forest park with benches. Open all year round, 7 days a week.
The father of the idea and the creator of the models is Kamil Fischer, who created all the miniatures by himself or with the help of his family for up to 11 years.
Visitors to the park are waiting for these thumbnails:
- Bojnice Castle
- Castle Strečno
- Old Town Hall in Levoca
- Chapel Michael Kosice
- Urban Tower in Košice
- Wooden church in Hervartov
- Wooden covered bridge in Kluknava
- Belfry in Kezmarok
- Belfry in Spišská Sobota
- Mausoleum Migazzi Gold Moravec
- Church Juraj Kostoľany pod Tríbečom
- Folk architecture Tekov-Ihráč “reconstruction”
- Folk architecture Vlkolínec
- Brezno water tower
- Church of St. John the Baptist
- The Lutheran church
- Červená Skala railway station
- Walachia open-air museum
- Garden railway
- Bratislava castle
- Synagogue of Malacky
- City tower in Trnava
- Folk architecture of Čičmany
- Dobšinská ice cave railway station
The models are truly faithful copy and authentic materials are used. The biggest is the Bojnice castle, and it is also the most demanding, as they worked on it until 5600 hours. Heaviest model is 620 kg weighing castle Strečno.